Shutting Down the Forums (Blog)

[roxyruby]

I don't go on the forums here anymore

but I had a LOT of fun on these forums and made a lot of friends, met a lot of really fun and cool people (YOU KNOW WHO <3 ) and had some good connecting and some good sharing

and I'm really grateful for that

^-^

Oh no I'm so sad now looking through the familiar facesss the, the familiar peeps from this forum. NO! This is very sad that everyone is getting split up and losing eachother. (

I'd like to know all this mysterious strange gossip and happenings and sudden and strange wtfs? unthinkable people being banned? ........!?&@*(*& !! ?? I'm very upset.

Oh.... this is all very sad...

I think maybe there is .... feelings of threat and hurt.... maybe something like that...

I want there to be healing and for every person to be well and secure of mind and emotion.

I do not like hurt and disconnection.

If it is any help...

I have forums, specialied forums, one for Social Anxiety, one for Anxiety, and one for Depression on each website of mine.
I may have a weight loss forum on a weight loss website in the future, and possibly also a forum on procrastination and productivity, and LOL i know, I want to have many websites and many forums of my own lol!

[Dezarae]

This forum brought Daan into my life. For that I am forever changed and forever grateful.

Just follow your heart Steve. *HUGS*

[Curious cat]

Originally Posted by Luvyourlife

What about all the other people serving eachother in this forum? Because a few individuals upset you, it justifies closing down the whole forum which affects all of us?

If you're relationship with the forum members is no longer serving you, why can't the forum be handed to someone else so you can let others continue to support and inspire eachother?

I think it's just as easy if members just sign up at pdforyou, or halfway ... They're only two doors down the road.

[Maya2066]

I hate to see this forum close. But I respect your decision. Many blessings for 2012 Steve.

[Lioness]

Originally Posted by Curtis2011

... it seems to me that having a small monthly fee (or perhaps just a one-time fee, since nobody enjoys monthly fees) would keep out a lot of the trouble-makers and riff-raff who bring in low-quality topics like "omgz my boy sed he likz anther girls!!! wat do I do?!"....I assume it would also keep the population down to a low count of only people who knew they would be active and participating regularly, not to mention making it easier on the moderators to keep out spammers and the like.

Well, I didn't notice much "riff-raff" here, but I guess we're all at different levels of PD. If you put it on a scale of levels 1-5, I suppose Steve would want to interact with the 4s and 5s.

The thing is, that seems to be the intention of the other forum too. A lot of people still like this forum, so this could be an opportunity for someone who could put together something similar. Many of us are still at levels 1-3.

I don't think charging a fee is the answer. That's similar to charging for membership to a gym. People at all levels start out gung-ho with great intentions then fall off, or never do more than walk on the treadmill. Even when they see the money going to waste, they aren't motivated anymore.

Probably if there is a new type of forum, there would be criteria like you would have to show you were already at least a level 3; similar to his criteria for consultations.

I'm still curious about his big new unnamed thing that he was working on. Maybe this will converge with a new type of forum.

[impaul99]

Originally Posted by Savage

I see there are a number of members here who also feel this place has run its course; I feel the same.

I agree 100%. I found this forum very powerful when it first started. Over the years though I found that most of the topics were repetitive and the depth of the discussions lacking.

I think a lot of us started at around the same level vibrationally when these forums started but over the years the difference between those people who embrace growth and those people who embrace a more "victim" type mentality grew to the point now where these forums don't serve either side.

I'm not perfect. I'm still growing and I still have a lot to learn, but I know 5 years ago I found coming to these forums as something fun and inspirational. In the last year or so though I've found it more and more depressing coming here, which is why I hardly ever popped by.

Steve I think your energy would be much better spent creating something different, and I know you will. To create something new, sometimes we have to let go of the old.

TO me, letting go of this forum comes at a time in my life when I'm also letting go of many other skeptical and "victim mentality" type people in all areas of my life. I'm not going to waste any more of my energy with people who want "proof" that Law of Attraction works for example, or that we can manifest our own reality, or that Psychic/Intuitive abilities are real.

Nobody had to "prove" LoA worked for me. I read one free book on the topic (The Science of Getting Rich), and then I spent 6 solid months in PERSONAL EXPERIMENTATION trying it out.

Anyway... on another note... Speaking from an intuitive perspective, I actually feel something REALLY big coming down the line from you Steve as soon as you let go of these forums.

That's just what I pick up.

[Million Dollar Man]

Goobye everyone! I will try to join some sites where you all post at!

Well farewell my friends!! but if you gotta go, go with a smile!!
Goobye to you all! Wish you all the best! Maybe I will join some of your sites!
I just watched one movie that changed my whole out look on life!! it was amazing!!

But if you gotta go go with a smile! This is s pretty funny video!! Farewell my friends!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqxd8CEtk3Y

[gene2009]

That was one of the best place in the Internet. Usually, i leave other forums first, and this is the 1st time when the forum has left me

[RomanHD]

Steve, how about you just disable posting? That way, the people who are yet to find out that the forum has closed can still PM their friends, and the lurkers can still search the many gems posted here over the years.

[Melchior]

Goodbye.

[ChrisGinsburg]

Originally Posted by Lioness

Well, I didn't notice much "riff-raff" here, but I guess we're all at different levels of PD. If you put it on a scale of levels 1-5, I suppose Steve would want to interact with the 4s and 5s.

Those numbers would only relate to how big people's ego's are anyway. It shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone that a forum for 'smart' people would end in an egoic melt down. But such is life.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Lioness

Well, I didn't notice much "riff-raff" here, but I guess we're all at different levels of PD.

That's because most of it has been cleaned up. I'd rather keep the archives relatively clean of people's final meltdowns.

[ellie]

Originally Posted by Savage

I have too little trust with the members of that other community to risk it at this point. In the past couple days, they've seemed much more interested in trolling and insults. They've made it clear they hold me in great contempt, so there's no basis to make such a proposal viable.

This is what I find sad, that you have judged a whole lot of people and lumped them all in the same basket, because of your perceptions of what has happened. Why not just let it go? There's so many other things in life, you could be concerned about.

Before I go, because this has always got to me, Steve have you ever turned around and said, "hey look, I've made a mistake, I'm sorry, I will meet you half way in acknowledging my part". Every argument, every big "drama" on this forum, it's always everyone else is wrong, and you have the authority. I always wondered why that was the case. There never ever seemed to be any leeway into wrongdoings. Maybe that's the key to success?

But actually I have seen personalities like this, I'm dealing with them right now actually (highly intellectual programmers to be precise) and I noticed something...they are highly intelligent, but never think they are wrong, impatient, go on ego trips and to be honest, never apologise or see any wrong doings on their part...and the result? They make the workplace a hard place to work in. There is so much discord.

I always wondered what's behind the personality of a person that can see no wrongdoing on their part and acknowledging it.
I don't get it? I would love to get under the bonnet, of that personality type. I actually find it fascinating. It's just so opposite to what I am used to.

[Harmonium]

Originally Posted by Savage

That's because most of it has been cleaned up. I'd rather keep the archives relatively clean of people's final meltdowns.

What about yours


/ducks

[KaleidoskopicVision]

Originally Posted by Harmonium

What about yours

my bff jill
/ducks

Intredasting.

[KaleidoskopicVision]

Oh my god I just realized something, Steve you can't shut the forums down, what if nicbrahms comes back? SUCH AN INTRIGUING UNSOLVED MYSTERY.

Seriously what ever happened to that crazy broad? One minute she's a mild mannered shopkeeper from southern England with a passing interest in New Agey stuff, then she starts downing bottles of Ormus and suddenly she's a synchronicity machine straddling a rift in spacetime created by the sheer unreality of her thought processes.

She was subjective reality. Or a really entertaining dung shoveler. And what if she comes back? She symbolized the nexus, the endgame of what all our tinkering with subjective reality could lead to.

Oh internet, such lamentatious maladies do ye heap upon my soul.

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by KaleidoskopicVision

Oh my god I just realized something, Steve you can't shut the forums down, what if nicbrahms comes back? SUCH AN INTRIGUING UNSOLVED MYSTERY.

Hahaha. Maybe she astral projected, and never came back. She's off travelling the cosmos!

[Harmonium]

Originally Posted by KaleidoskopicVision

Oh my god I just realized something, Steve you can't shut the forums down, what if nicbrahms comes back? SUCH AN INTRIGUING UNSOLVED MYSTERY.

Seriously what ever happened to that crazy broad? One minute she's a mild mannered shopkeeper from southern England with a passing interest in New Agey stuff, then she starts downing bottles of Ormus and suddenly she's a synchronicity machine straddling a rift in spacetime created by the sheer unreality of her thought processes.

She was subjective reality. Or a really entertaining dung shoveler. And what if she comes back? She symbolized the nexus, the endgame of what all our tinkering with subjective reality could lead to.

Oh internet, such lamentatious maladies do ye heap upon my soul.

I concur with this.

[KaleidoskopicVision]

Originally Posted by Plays With Life

Hahaha. Maybe she astral projected, and never came back. She's off travelling the cosmos!

The world will never know... such truths are unfit for our mortal frames

[Lil Chris]

Perhaps offering a decent salary to handle the administrative duties (like every other business in the world) would have been the smart persons approach? Like it or not, it was a function of your blogging business, which catered to people for attending your seminars and kept people reading your blog. Strange how tossing it all away seems like the correct path. Especially when many people are asking where everyone is going, so they can remain in touch with each other. Kind of mind boggling IMO...

[KaleidoskopicVision]

Originally Posted by Lil Chris

Perhaps offering a decent salary to handle the administrative duties (like every other business in the world) would have been the smart persons approach? Like it or not, it was a function of your blogging business, which catered to people for attending your seminars and kept people reading your blog. Strange how tossing it all away seems like the correct path. Especially when many people are asking where everyone is going, so they can remain in touch with each other. Kind of mind boggling IMO...

Yes, it seems to be more of an emotional, rather than a rational approach.

But as Steve's career has consistently demonstrated, relying on rationale to make a business model is for squares.

[Anna Conlan]

Originally Posted by Focus Driblet

So why even start? This forum is chaotic enough as it is without people making up their own, uninformed theories, IMHO.

Quite.

I felt that elucidate was being unfair and was wondering if she might see it another way.

but I guess it's pointless engaging with angry people who have already made up their minds.

[garentee]

Originally Posted by ellie

This is what I find sad, that you have judged a whole lot of people and lumped them all in the same basket, because of your perceptions of what has happened. Why not just let it go? There's so many other things in life, you could be concerned about.

Before I go, because this has always got to me, Steve have you ever turned around and said, "hey look, I've made a mistake, I'm sorry, I will meet you half way in acknowledging my part". Every argument, every big "drama" on this forum, it's always everyone else is wrong, and you have the authority. I always wondered why that was the case. There never ever seemed to be any leeway into wrongdoings. Maybe that's the key to success?

But actually I have seen personalities like this, I'm dealing with them right now actually (highly intellectual programmers to be precise) and I noticed something...they are highly intelligent, but never think they are wrong, impatient, go on ego trips and to be honest, never apologise or see any wrong doings on their part...and the result? They make the workplace a hard place to work in. There is so much discord.

I always wondered what's behind the personality of a person that can see no wrongdoing on their part and acknowledging it.
I don't get it? I would love to get under the bonnet, of that personality type. I actually find it fascinating. It's just so opposite to what I am used to.

The embodiment of a narcisistic personality

[KaleidoskopicVision]

Originally Posted by garentee

The embodiment of a narcisistic personality

garentee, your simple, to the point, salt of the earth type comments have always been refreshing.

And yet so agonizingly definite. No, there must be another explanation!

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by KaleidoskopicVision

And yet so agonizingly definite. No, there must be another explanation!

It's what God wanted. Steve is doing the Lord's work.

[KaleidoskopicVision]

Originally Posted by Plays With Life

It's what God wanted. Steve is doing the Lord's work.

Yes of course, which would explain the purging of the heretics. The burning of false idols (the Golden Forum).

No, none of that makes a lick of sense.

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by KaleidoskopicVision

Yes of course, which would explain the purging of the heretics. The burning of false idols (the Golden Forum).

Originally Posted by KaleidoskopicVision

No, none of that makes a lick of sense.

Steve works in mysterious ways. :reverence:

[MagicalRealist]

Originally Posted by KaleidoskopicVision

Oh my god I just realized something, Steve you can't shut the forums down, what if nicbrahms comes back? SUCH AN INTRIGUING UNSOLVED MYSTERY.

Seriously what ever happened to that crazy broad? One minute she's a mild mannered shopkeeper from southern England with a passing interest in New Agey stuff, then she starts downing bottles of Ormus and suddenly she's a synchronicity machine straddling a rift in spacetime created by the sheer unreality of her thought processes.

She was subjective reality. Or a really entertaining dung shoveler. And what if she comes back? She symbolized the nexus, the endgame of what all our tinkering with subjective reality could lead to.

Oh internet, such lamentatious maladies do ye heap upon my soul.

I can solve that mystery:

Many months ago, I googled her because so many people kept asking, "Whatever happened to NicBrahms?"

Well, she's still working in her parents' shop (no, she doesn't own it). There was no huge lottery win--not for her, anyway.

There was a burglary, in which the thief entered her parents' home through the back of their shop and stole a lot of jewelry. I found a news article that quoted the shop owners' daughter, Nicolette Brahms, and the location matched the one she'd given somewhere else (Twitter, I believe). The robbery occurred many months after she claimed to have won the lottery. The shop itself is what, here in the US, would be called a mom-and-pop grocery--a little convenience store selling drinks and snacks and a few groceries. The shop's on the ground floor of a terrace house, and her parents live upstairs.

So as far as I can tell she was just a bored young woman, living in a sleepy little town, wishing for something far more glamorous and exciting. So she came here and ended up role-playing her fantasy. Which is kind of sad, because if she'd actually listened to anyone else on the I-M forum and started making real changes, she probably could have brought her life further into alignment with her fantasies. Hell, she still could.

And there you have it. Mystery solved.

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by MagicalRealist

...
And there you have it. Mystery solved.

Or .. That's just what she WANTED us to believe! :sense of mystery:

[Plays With Life]

And, in other news, it's 9 degrees outside. Winter hath arrived!